In 1991 the mosque at Ayodhya in India was once demolished through Hindu fundamentalists who declare that it stood at the birthplace of a mythical Hindu hero. in the course of fresh conflicts in former Yugoslavia, ethnic teams destroyed mosques and church buildings to dispose of facts of long term cost through different groups.

Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat holiday new flooring during this comparative historical past of slavery in Greece and Rome. targeting slaves’ fiscal position in society, their an important contributions to Greek and Roman tradition, and their day-by-day and kinfolk lives, the authors learn the various ways that slavery advanced within the cultures.

'Early Celtic artwork' - typified via the long-lasting shields, swords, torcs and chariot apparatus we will see in areas similar to the British Museum - has been studied in isolation from the remainder of the proof from the Iron Age. This ebook reintegrates the paintings with the archaeology, putting the unearths within the context of our most modern principles approximately Iron Age and Romano-British society.

This quantity brings jointly the implications from the excavations on the former Imperial university activities flooring, RMC Land and Land East of Wall backyard Farm, close to the villages of Harlington and Sipson within the London Borough of Hillingdon. The excavations printed elements of an archaeological panorama with a wealthy historical past of improvement from ahead of 4000 BC to the post-medieval interval.